Fusion Energy: The ITER Project

 


The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a $22 billion collaboration among 35 nations, aims to replicate the Sun’s fusion process on Earth. Located in France, this mega-project seeks to prove fusion—combining hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) into helium—can generate clean, limitless energy. Unlike fission, fusion produces no long-lived radioactive waste and emits zero greenhouse gases.


ITER’s tokamak reactor, designed to confine superheated plasma using magnetic fields, faces immense technical challenges, including sustaining temperatures over 150 million°C.


While operational delays persist, its success could revolutionize energy by the 2050s, offering a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels. Critics cite cost and complexity, but ITER symbolizes humanity’s audacious bet on a sustainable energy future.

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